HiJinx Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

30 Dec – 1 Jan 2027 (3 days)

Location

N/A, Philadelphia, United States

Sound

Bass · Electronic · Hip Hop

Tickets

€198 – €1,012 · 5 tiers tracked

Line-up announced

18 artists so far

The story

HiJinx Festival is an indoor music event taking place in Philadelphia, PA, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from December 30-31, 2026. This festival focuses on bass-heavy artists and features a significant light show. It is an 18+ event designed to celebrate New Year's Eve.

HiJinx Festival is a 3-day bass, electronic, hip hop festival at N/A in Philadelphia, United States. The December 2026 edition runs 30 Dec – 1 Jan 2027.

Announced so far: Subtronics, Layz, Sullivan King, Excision, Rad Cat, Dennett, INZO and Level Up and 10 more. Expect stages split between Bass, Electronic and Hip Hop. The line-up is spread across the 3 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at N/A, in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

HiJinx Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Friday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Philadelphia are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• Venue: Pennsylvania Convention Center
• 2-Day festival
• Age minimum is 18+
• Heavy bass lineup

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to HiJinx Festival works out at roughly €1,200 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 17% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 11h 47m each way, at €756 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at HiJinx Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow HiJinx Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Wednesday 30 December

  Subtronics, Excision, INZO, Tape B, Brainrack, DJ Diesel

• Day 2 — Thursday 31 December

  Layz, Rad Cat, Level Up, Wooli, Calcium, Mary Droppinz

• Day 3 — Friday 1 January

  Sullivan King, Dennett, Ray Volpe, TroyBoi, Dabin, Moore Kismet

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  30 Dec – 1 Jan 2026 (approx.)

  Regulars: Subtronics, Layz, Sullivan King

• 2024

  30 Dec – 1 Jan 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Layz, Sullivan King, Excision

• 2023

  30 Dec – 1 Jan 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Sullivan King, Excision, Rad Cat

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is N/A, in Philadelphia.
• Book a bed in Philadelphia early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air11h 47m · €756